Please, do NOT force your toddler to hold the pencil the way a school child does, with 3 fingers on the pencil â you may do more harm than good. It is very hard to âunlearnâ a poor pencil grip later in life! Each stage of holding a pencil or crayon is dependent on how âsteadyâ the shoulder and arm muscles are.
In the equation of a straight line (when the equation is written as  y = mx + b ), the slope is the number  m  that is multiplied on the x, and  b  is the y-intercept, where the line crosses the y-axis.
incline, side. 1  acclivity, ascent, climb, upgrade, raise, rise - an upward slope or grade (as in a road); the car couldn't make it up the rise. 2  bank - sloping land (especially the slope beside a body of water); they pulled the canoe up on the bank; he sat on the bank of the river and watched the currents.